Your NRL controversial take

[JamesRustle]

‘Fun Bags’ is the term I prefer

I like shirt potatoes... must be my Irish roots... and by roots, I mean roots.

 

[yobbo84]

Mid field kicking game is as important as long kicking and short kicking.

By this I mean kicks between the forty metre lines which aren't intended to be directly contested by an attacking player.

The ability to land the ball five metres in from touch and five metres from the try line can set up the next ten minutes of play for the kicking team.

An isolated winger can easily result in the kick return set only making it to the thirty. Alternatively a mid field floating bomb or similar can cause issues for wingers with catching issues.

Ben Hunt and Mitchell Moses both seem to have very ordinary mid field kicking games which consist of a basic easily caught bomb.

Moses in particular gave away the 2022 GF by kicking a nothing bomb direct to Edwards in the seventeenth minute. His team were always odds on to lose but he kicked away the game then and there.

We've missed this enormously since Reyno left. He's probably the best in the game at it with Cleary.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I like shirt potatoes... must be my Irish roots... and by roots, I mean roots.

But potatoes are Peruvian

 

[Haffa]

Brad Arthur isn't bald.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Origin has definitely peaked as a concept and the game will outgrow it over the next two decades. We've got tones of Kiwis in the NRL now, a few Englishmen, PNG, Fiji and we are about to start drip feeding Victorians into the NRL. .....

Which ones are the sopranos?

 

[YoHadrian]

Players should be forced to run through cheerleader tunnels. Not observing the tunnel is gross disrespect.

I'm pretty sure the tunnels are still being respected after the game.

 

[YoungPanther]

Parra to Darwin … make it happen

Would be nice but unfortunately the AFL want a team in Darwin after taking over that marketing haven in Tassie. I'd love to be in one of their meetings with their sponsors, how they spin wanting more money, now they have Tassie and potentially Darwin on board.

As long as Baldy, Gutho and Mitch are there, they can stay put for the laughs.

 

[Saxon]

The player transfer system and salary cap are a joke. I can’t see the Cowboys, Raiders, Knights or Titans winning a competition with the current system in place.

But but Vlandys says we have enough talent for 3 more teams...

 

[Rising from the Ashes]

But but Vlandys says we have enough talent for 3 more teams...

There’s already 6 shit sides

 

[Colk]

But but Vlandys says we have enough talent for 3 more teams...

Not with the current system we don’t. You need a draft or something else on top of the salary cap if we are going to expand.

I have particularly grave concerns for a PNG side. Regional clubs like Canberra, Newcastle and Cowboys struggle to recruit first grade players, how the hell are PNG going to recruit anybody?

 

[Canard]

Would be nice but unfortunately the AFL want a team in Darwin after taking over that marketing haven in Tassie. I'd love to be in one of their meetings with their sponsors, how they spin wanting more money, now they have Tassie and potentially Darwin on board.

As long as Baldy, Gutho and Mitch are there, they can stay put for the laughs.

I'm pretty sure even the AFL aren't keen on Darwin, that's just some Darwin based cooked units.

 

[MugaB]

6 again rule sucks and always has, it's more frustrating than penalties.

Thanx ricky

 

[MugaB]

T Boon is good for rugby league

Pretty good satire there

 

[MugaB]

Parra to Darwin … make it happen

But they'll be chanting Red-cliffe! Red-cliffe! Red-Cliffe

 

[MugaB]

As long as you don't put the receiver in a dangerous position you should be able to contest a ball that it's in the air whilst the receiver is leaping off the ground. It should be a proper contest.

40/20's should be allowed at any part of the field, as long as the ball lands in the opposition half uncontested before going out, whilst also going at least 40 metres. It adds a legitimate kicking attack tactic that isn't just kicking on the last tackle.

5 minute sin bins for lower tier issues.

10 minute sin bins or penalties, 5 minute sin bins won't work, players need harsher deterants or they'll keep flauting the rules 5 minutes is nothing it's like 2 sets, teams can defend for that long, 10 mins most teams crumble

 

[Reflector]

This may be all true but the solution proposed - allow anyone to play Origin - is completely wrong.

I'm happy for the International game to rise and overtake Origin. But Origin can still be kept 'pure' in this landscape.

Under my proposal, the concept would become even more 'pure' than it has been for the past decade or so.

But I'll talk more on that in a new thread shortly...

 

[skeepe]

V’Landys, widely regarded as a great administrator, is in fact killing the game.

The constant tinkering to make the game faster has broken players, resulting in a spate of soft tissue injuries.

The 6 again rule is an abomination.

If he brings in PNG as the 18th team as is widely mooted, it will be the single stupidest decision in the history of sports administration anywhere in the world and will be the death of rugby league.

 

[Colk]

V’Landys, widely regarded as a great administrator, is in fact killing the game.

The constant tinkering to make the game faster has broken players, resulting in a spate of soft tissue injuries.

The 6 again rule is an abomination.

If he brings in PNG as the 18th team as is widely mooted, it will be the single stupidest decision in the history of sports administration anywhere in the world and will be the death of rugby league.

PNG will just be another side that can’t possibly ever win a competition. Actually it could be multitudes worse because nobody in their right mind will play for them.

 

[Bukowski]

PNG will just be another side that can’t possibly ever win a competition. Actually it could be multitudes worse because nobody in their right mind will play for them.

Good news for tigers fans.

 

[MugaB]

PNG will just be another side that can’t possibly ever win a competition. Actually it could be multitudes worse because nobody in their right mind will play for them.

That's sounds like the take on wests tigers about 4 years ago, then they were able to sign Api korasau along with some other players, and are slowly building better every season... you're sounding very defeatist